NJ, ICE Pause Fight Over Planned Immigrant Detention Center

By Carla Baranauckas

The state of New Jersey and one of its municipalities on Tuesday temporarily paused their bid to block a planned immigration detention center after reaching an agreement with federal officials that halts most work at the site pending further environmental review.

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Celgene Gets Final OK For $239M Deal, Atty Fees

By Emilie Ruscoe

Investors in biopharmaceutical company Celgene Corp. have gotten a final nod for their $239 million deal to end proposed class claims that the company overstated commercial prospects for two of its drugs, and the investors' four-firm legal team will get fees and costs of nearly $57.3 million for their work on the case.

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NJ Court Not Sure Bristol-Myers Investor Pled Negligence

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday pushed back on an investor's insistence that his complaint over Bristol-Myers Squibb's $74 billion acquisition of Celgene satisfied pleading standards for securities lawsuits, echoing a trial court judge's concern that claims of disclosure requirement shortfalls sounded more in fraud than negligence.

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NJ Justices Revive Expert Testimony In Vehicular Death Case

By Elizabeth Daley

The New Jersey Supreme Court held Tuesday that a man accused of killing a 94-year-old woman in a crash may present expert testimony challenging whether her death was caused by his alleged recklessness, finding in a reversal that a pretrial evidentiary hearing wasn't needed.

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NJSBA To Partner With Lowenstein, McCarter, FBT Gibbons

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey State Bar Association announced Tuesday it expanded its sponsorship program for its 2026-2027 slate of events to include McCarter & English LLP and FBT Gibbons in addition to Lowenstein Sandler LLP, its sponsorship partner last year.

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DOE Accused Of Stretching Emergency Power For Pa. Plant

By Elaine Briseño

A group of consumer and environmental advocates has told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Department of Energy illegally substituted long-term electricity planning reserved for states with its own emergency authority to keep open a Pennsylvania power plant.

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House Dem Probes Retailers' Use Of Surveillance Pricing

By Allison Grande

The top Democrat on an influential U.S. House committee has begun to scrutinize corporate "surveillance pricing" practices, pushing Target, Walmart, Costco, Family Dollar, Whole Foods and 20 others Tuesday to explain whether and how they're using consumers' personal data to set individualized prices for certain products and services.

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Mich. Judge Says Vape Co. Infringed 'Breeze' Trademarks

By Jonathan Capriel

A New Jersey hookah and vape company infringed a trademark when it sold products under the "Breeze" name, a Michigan federal judge ruled, granting a win to a manufacturer after saying "undisputed evidence shows" the defendant did not own the marks.

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3rd Circ. Says Financial Services Rule Thwarts Privacy Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit declined to reinstate class claims made by a group of John Hancock customers from Illinois accusing Amazon Web Services Inc. and Pindrop Security Inc. of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, ruling Tuesday that exemptions under Illinois and federal law applied.

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Del Monte Defends Ch. 11 Plan Against Lenders' Objection

By Ben Zigterman

Del Monte Foods defended its Chapter 11 liquidation plan at a confirmation hearing Tuesday in New Jersey, arguing that, despite what a group of lenders has said, the debtor ran a transparent bankruptcy process that resulted in three separate sales.

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Where The Preemption Fight Over Prediction Markets Stands

While the Third Circuit's recent ruling in Kalshi v. Flaherty remains a significant win for the federal government in its quest to regulate prediction markets, the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits appear more skeptical, indicating that this fight is likely headed for the Supreme Court, says Johnny ElHachem at Holland & Knight.

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4 Emerging Approaches To AI Protective Order Language

Over the last year, at least five federal district courts have issued or analyzed specific protective order provisions restricting the use of generative artificial intelligence platforms with protected materials, establishing that proactive AI-specific provisions are now standard practice and demonstrating that no single model works for every case, says Joel Bush at Kilpatrick.

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How They Won It

Attys For Tufts Profs Didn't Blink In A Tenure Standoff

By Julie Manganis

When Jennifer Henricks and Kevin Peters first learned what was happening to tenured professors at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston a few years ago, they knew that what was at stake involved more than just a dispute over the terms of a contract.

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Palestinian Ex-Associate Slaps DLA Piper With Bias Claim

By Lynn LaRowe

DLA Piper has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit in Illinois from a former summer associate alleging discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation based on her identity as a Palestinian, Gazan, Arab and Muslim woman.

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Fired Immigration Judge Says Trump Can't Skirt Bias Laws

By Grace Elletson

A former immigration judge urged a D.C. federal court not to throw out her bias suit challenging her firing, arguing the U.S. Department of Justice was pushing the "breathtaking proposition" that the president was empowered to commit unlawful discrimination.

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Law Student Can't Get School To Nix Kirk Comment Discipline

By Mike Curley

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday said the court cannot force Texas Tech University's leaders to rescind a reprimand against a law student who allegedly celebrated following the death of Charlie Kirk, as the university has sovereign immunity.

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Michigan Dems Noncommittal On Trump's Judicial Pick

By Courtney Bublé

Michigan's two Democratic senators played it coy on Tuesday when asked if they would support the district court nominee for their state that the president announced the night before.

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PayPal Settles Gov't DEI Probe With Small Biz Program

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with PayPal Inc. to end an investigation into what the department said was a discriminatory investment program for Black- and minority-owned businesses.

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